Word: loses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...financial community considered it the final straw last October when Aristide refused to sign an international agreement to sell off nine inefficient and overstaffed state enterprises. When popular organizations took to the streets, the President preferred to palliate those who would lose jobs rather than begin constructing a working economy. As a result, $100 million in aid has been frozen and private investment scared off. The economy has been dead in the water ever since. Says Michel Georges, a Cap Haitien businessman, with a sigh: "We're waiting for an economic program to begin...
Marc Andreessen greets a visitor at his office in Mountain View, California, by saying, "Got my Armani suit on today." He's actually wearing a sport shirt, jeans and clunky boots. When he's off duty, he may lose the boots. Andreessen is 6-ft. 4-in. tall and has a baby face and lopsided smile. Talking about the day he made his first $50 million, he says, "I was at home in bed. I had been up until, like, 3 in the morning, working, so I woke up at 11, logged in from home, looked at Quote.Com. My eyes...
...being compromised by obsolescent equipment, reckless penny pinching and severe staffing cuts that have eliminated 2,000 controller positions since 1982, even as air traffic has soared 35%. Says Gus Guerra, a California controller: "It's almost as though they're waiting for a midair collision where we lose hundreds of lives before they finally see the big light bulb...
WHEN YOU WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT, YOU don't go out and try to shut down every bakery and fast-food outlet in town; you go on a diet. U.S. authorities should realize that so long as there is a multibillion-dollar demand for drugs, lots of people will go to any lengths to profit from that demand. The war on drugs will never be won until the real enemy is confronted and attacked. PEDRO MARTIN COLEA Mexico City...
That doesn't mean "you scream publicly," Forbes said. "You don't cause China to lose face needlessly. You hit them hard in private and send an unmistakable public signal. You send the Navy to the Taiwan Strait. You don't explain why. You just do it. They'll get the message." Forbes was heartened when Clinton had the aircraft carrier Nimitz steam between China and Taiwan last December, but "dumbfounded" when "some stupid functionary said it was there only because of bad weather in the Pacific." But what if China lobbed missiles at Taiwan instead of invading...